From Norman’s shelf

Best Board Games for 6–8 players

Party-sized games for six to eight, where the chaos is part of the fun.

Norman owns 152 games that play with 6–8 players. His highest rated: Poker, The Gang: Deluxe Edition and Dominant Species. Most played at his table: Magical Athlete (3 plays).

Ranked by Norman's rating, what BoardGameGeek voters say is the best player count, and how often each one has hit his table with this many players.

  1. Poker
    1. Poker 8.5/10
    2–9 players
    BGG voters say it's best with 6 · 60 min, medium weight
  2. Captain Sonar
    2. Captain Sonar 7.5/10
    2–8 players
    BGG voters say it's best with 8 · 45–60 min, medium weight
  3. One Night Ultimate Werewolf: Daybreak
    3. One Night Ultimate Werewolf: Daybreak 7.3/10
    3–10 players
    BGG voters say it's best with 6 · 10 min, light
  4. Wavelength
    4. Wavelength 7.2/10
    2–12 players
    BGG voters say it's best with 6 · 30–45 min, light
  5. Exodus: Proxima Centauri
    5. Exodus: Proxima Centauri 7.1/10
    2–6 players
    BGG voters say it's best with 6 · 180 min, heavy
  6. Insider
    6. Insider 7/10
    4–8 players
    BGG voters say it's best with 6 · 15 min, light
  7. One Night Ultimate Werewolf
    7. One Night Ultimate Werewolf 7/10
    3–10 players
    BGG voters say it's best with 6 · 10 min, light
  8. Tumblin-Dice Medium
    8. Tumblin-Dice Medium 7/10
    2–6 players
    BGG voters say it's best with 6 · 15 min, light
  9. One Night Ultimate Alien
    9. One Night Ultimate Alien 6.9/10
    4–10 players
    BGG voters say it's best with 7 · 10 min, light
  10. Wits & Wagers
    10. Wits & Wagers 6.9/10
    3–7 players
    BGG voters say it's best with 7 · 25 min, light
  11. Magical Athlete
    11. Magical Athlete 6.8/10
    2–6 players
    I keep coming back to something small about Magical Athlete that I didn't expect to think about this much: it doesn't care who's sitting at…
  12. Bootleggers
    12. Bootleggers 6.7/10
    3–6 players
    BGG voters say it's best with 6 · 90 min, medium weight
Everything else on his shelf that fits (140 more)
  • The Gang: Deluxe Edition — 3–10 players, 7.9/10
  • Dominant Species — 2–6 players, 7.8/10
  • Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game — 3–6 players, 7.7/10
  • Axis & Allies Anniversary Edition — 2–6 players, 7.5/10
  • Western Legends — 2–6 players, 7.5/10 · review
  • Dungeon Fighter (Second Edition) — 1–6 players, 7.4/10
  • Libertalia: Winds of Galecrest — 1–6 players, 7.4/10
  • Trio — 3–6 players, 7.4/10
  • Junk Art — 2–6 players, 7.3/10
  • Forage — 1–6 players, 7.2/10 · review
  • Tiny Towns — 1–6 players, 7.2/10
  • Ecos: First Continent — 2–6 players, 7.1/10
  • Eurorails — 2–6 players, 7.1/10
  • Scoville — 2–6 players, 7.1/10
  • Tournament at Camelot — 3–6 players, 7.1/10
  • Camel Up — 2–8 players, 7/10
  • Cartographers — 1–100 players, 7/10
  • Desperate Oasis — , 7/10
  • Ethnos — 2–6 players, 7/10
  • Evolution — 2–6 players, 7/10
  • Flip 7 — 3–18 players, 7/10
  • L'oaf — 2–6 players, 7/10
  • Lizard Wizard — 2–6 players, 7/10
  • Magic: The Gathering — 2–6 players, 7/10
  • Ricochet Robots — 1–99 players, 7/10
  • RoboRally — 2–8 players, 7/10
  • Tales of the Arabian Nights — 2–6 players, 7/10
  • Trinket Trove — 2–6 players, 7/10
  • Boggle — 1–8 players, 6.9/10
  • Deep Sea Adventure — 2–6 players, 6.9/10
  • Disney Villainous: The Worst Takes it All — 2–6 players, 6.9/10
  • La Boca — 2–6 players, 6.9/10
  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: A Gemstone Mining Game — 3–7 players, 6.9/10
  • Star Trek Panic — 1–6 players, 6.9/10
  • Surfosaurus MAX — 2–6 players, 6.9/10
  • Babel — 2–7 players, 6.8/10
  • Flick 'em Up! — 2–10 players, 6.8/10
  • Castle Panic — 1–6 players, 6.7/10
  • Duck & Cover — 2–6 players, 6.7/10
  • Fleecing Olympus — 3–6 players, 6.7/10
  • Four Humours — 2–6 players, 6.7/10
  • New York Slice — 2–8 players, 6.7/10
  • One Night Ultimate Vampire — 3–10 players, 6.7/10
  • TransAmerica — 2–6 players, 6.7/10
  • Treasure Hunter — 2–6 players, 6.7/10
  • Winterhaven Woods — 1–6 players, 6.7/10
  • Ca$h 'n Gun$ — 4–8 players, 6.6/10
  • Disc Duelers — 2–6 players, 6.6/10
  • Formula Dé — 2–10 players, 6.6/10
  • Frank's Zoo — 3–7 players, 6.6/10
  • Nevermore — 2–6 players, 6.6/10
  • Samurai Spirit — 1–7 players, 6.6/10
  • BANG! — 4–7 players, 6.5/10
  • Bohnanza — 2–7 players, 6.5/10
  • Chicken Caesar — 3–6 players, 6.5/10
  • Elfenroads — 2–6 players, 6.5/10
  • Fruitoplay — 2–6 players, 6.5/10
  • Heimlich & Co. — 2–7 players, 6.5/10
  • Honeypot — 1–6 players, 6.5/10 · review
  • Marvel: Remix — 2–6 players, 6.5/10
  • Nightmare Forest: Dead Run — 1–6 players, 6.5/10
  • Run for Your Life, Candyman! — 2–6 players, 6.5/10
  • Saboteur — 3–10 players, 6.5/10
  • Salem 1692 — 4–12 players, 6.5/10
  • Space Cadets — 3–6 players, 6.5/10
  • Tsuro of the Seas — 2–8 players, 6.5/10
  • Two Rooms and a Boom — 6–30 players, 6.5/10
  • BANG!: The Walking Dead — 4–7 players, 6.4/10
  • Damage Report — 2–6 players, 6.4/10
  • Dragon's Gold — 3–6 players, 6.4/10
  • Junta: Viva el Presidente! — 3–8 players, 6.4/10
  • Manhattan — 2–6 players, 6.4/10
  • Medici — 2–6 players, 6.4/10
  • Salem — 3–7 players, 6.4/10
  • Cheaty Mages! — 3–6 players, 6.3/10
  • Cockroach Poker — 2–6 players, 6.3/10
  • Dread Curse — 2–6 players, 6.3/10
  • Mahé — 2–7 players, 6.3/10
  • Pantone: The Game — 2–20 players, 6.3/10
  • The Bucket King — 2–6 players, 6.3/10
  • VivaJava: The Coffee Game — 3–8 players, 6.3/10
  • Dead Last — 6–12 players, 6.2/10
  • Lemming Mafia — 2–6 players, 6.2/10
  • Sitting Ducks Gallery — 3–6 players, 6.2/10
  • Truffle Shuffle — 2–99 players, 6.2/10
  • Unspeakable Words — 2–6 players, 6.2/10
  • Why First? — 2–6 players, 6.2/10
  • Family Business — 2–6 players, 6.1/10
  • Quest for the Antidote — 2–6 players, 6.1/10
  • Raise Your Goblets — 2–12 players, 6.1/10
  • Titan Race — 2–6 players, 6.1/10
  • Acquire — 2–6 players, 6/10
  • Catch the Moon — 1–6 players, 6/10
  • Codenames — 2–8 players, 6/10
  • Elfenland — 2–6 players, 6/10
  • Fuji Flush — 3–8 players, 6/10
  • King of Tokyo — 2–6 players, 6/10
  • Long Shot: The Dice Game — 1–8 players, 6/10
  • Pick Picknic — 2–6 players, 6/10
  • Rum & Bones — 2–6 players, 6/10
  • WildLife — 2–6 players, 6/10
  • Killer Bunnies and the Conquest of the Magic Carrot — 2–8 players, 5.9/10
  • Mars Attacks: The Dice Game — 3–6 players, 5.9/10
  • Shootin' Ladders: Frag Fest — 3–8 players, 5.9/10
  • Montgolfière — 2–6 players, 5.8/10
  • Gear & Piston — 2–6 players, 5.7/10
  • Geek Out! — 2–99 players, 5.7/10
  • That's a Question! — 3–6 players, 5.7/10
  • Zooscape — 3–6 players, 5.7/10
  • Evergreen — 2–6 players, 5.6/10
  • J'Accuse! — 3–6 players, 5.6/10
  • Killer Bunnies and the Journey to Jupiter — 2–6 players, 5.6/10
  • Tiki Mountain! — 2–6 players, 5.6/10
  • Geek Out! Pop Culture Party — 2–99 players, 5.5/10
  • Killer Bunnies and the Quest for the Magic Carrot — 2–8 players, 5.5/10
  • Landmarks — 2–10 players, 5.5/10
  • Redneck Life — 2–6 players, 5.5/10
  • Slangology — 3–10 players, 5.5/10
  • Deep Dive — 1–6 players, 5.4/10
  • You've Been Sentenced! — 3–10 players, 5.3/10
  • Mad QUAO — 2–6 players, 5.2/10
  • UnNatural Selection — 3–10 players, 5.2/10
  • Corgi Pileup — 2–7 players, 5/10
  • It's a Balloon!? — 3–8 players, 5/10
  • Mysterium — 2–7 players, 5/10
  • Quao — 3–6 players, 5/10
  • Rumble in the House — 3–6 players, 5/10
  • Zombies!!! — 2–6 players, 5/10
  • Apples to Apples — 4–10 players, 4.9/10
  • The Hobbit: The Defeat of Smaug — 2–6 players, 4.9/10
  • Krumble! — 3–6 players, 4.8/10
  • Penguin — 2–6 players, 4.8/10
  • Fairy Tale Assassin League: Red Riding Hood Rampage — 2–8 players, 4.6/10
  • Say What You Meme — 3–10 players, 4.2/10
  • AssassinCon — 2–6 players, 4/10
  • Bookmaker — 2–6 players, 4/10
  • Hike — 3–8 players, 4/10
  • The Princess Bride: Prepare to Die — 2–10 players, 3.6/10
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